The American Dream - Only about 1 in 9 now live it!
What we call the American Dream is now perhaps more elusive than any time since the great depression. The Tale of Two Choices, below illuminates it's root cause.
Described here is what a minimal version of the American Dream costs a family of four. This chart takes into account a household earning a payroll earned gross income of $100,000/year. It also assumes the family will own 2 cars (with car payments), will give 10% to charity, will take 2-weeks of vacation, will have to pay for health insurance, will have cable TV, broadband Internet, and 4 smartphones, will have outstanding student loan and credit card debt, will go out to dinner and lunch once a week, see a movie or concert once a month and have other miscellaneous expenses.
Why do so little people earn less than enough to share in the American Dream?
Read below to learn more.
Excerpts from the
Declaration of Independence
July 4th, 1776
The Rally for Our Cause!
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . . That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Are we not at such a crossroads in our country once again?
AND/OR
Now more than ever!
We need to be a
NATION OF INNOVATION!
THE STATUS QUO MUST GO!
COMPROMISE & CORRUPTION
BLOCK the very INNOVATION
WE NEED to solve our problems.
A conservative, smaller, reformed and innovative government.
the Top 1% of US household incomes grew by nearly
7-Fold over the Middle 60% of US household incomes!
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ABOUT THE INEQUALITY OF WEALTH AND INCOME IN AMERICA!
Click here to read about how GREED robs most of us from liberty and is a root cause of poverty.
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ABC News - 9-10-13
"The income gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America last year reached the widest point since the Roaring Twenties.
The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share since 1928. And the share held by the top 10 percent of earners last year reached a record 48.2 percent.
Last year, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose nearly 20 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.
The top 1 percent of American households had income above $394,000 last year. The top 10 percent had income exceeding $114,000."
Also corporate profits are at an all time high, while employee compensation has barely increased since 1978. Also CEO compensation has increased 726% since 1978. See chart below provided by the Economic Policy Institute via a WashingtonPost article.
